On Mon, 3 Feb 1997 15:37:40 +0100 (MET),
Erik Bertelsen <erik@sockdev.uni-c.dk> wrote:
> On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Paul Goyette wrote:
> 
> .. On Mon, 3 Feb 1997, Erik Bertelsen wrote:
> .. 
> .. > And if you are running xdm, the way to do it is to find xdm's pid and then
> .. > kill xdm. Xdm will then close down and in the process of doing that, it
> .. > will also stop the X server.
> .. 
> .. If you're running xdm, you probably don't have a getty running on the
> .. console.  So unless you've got some other way to get into the system,
> .. killing xdm probably won't help.  (I learned this the hard way, while
> .. getting xdm running!)
> 
> That depends. I run pcvt and then I can switch from the graphics mode
> virtual terminal to one of the text mode vt's to do the killing.

Unfortunately, pcvt is not something of a choice for us running
mac68k.  We don't even have graphic and text modes as such.

Ken